00:00The coolest feature to me is that it can get through traffic faster than any car in history.
00:05We get so many reactions from people watching it, it's amazing.
00:10Hi, I'm Rick Woodbury, I'm president and founder of New York.
00:15I started this company in 21 years.
00:20Ten years ago.
00:24It was based.
00:25On an idea that I came up with in 1982.
00:30I used to drive a Porsche from Beverly Hills to...
00:35...Hamos Beach every day and the traffic was horrendous.
00:38And I noticed that everybody around me...
00:40...was a single occupant in a car taking up a whole lane.
00:43So I thought everybody wants to get...
00:45...from point A to point B efficiently.
00:47And in cities like Los Angeles, there's really no center.
00:50There's no hub, everybody goes everywhere.
00:54I don't think there's any...
00:55...other answer except doubling lane capacity.
00:57This is the Tango Car, a super slim electric...
01:00...the vehicle that has created Rick's answer to congested city driving.
01:03Well, the coolest feature to me is that it can get...
01:05...through traffic faster than any car in history.
01:07Same width as a Harley Davidson motorcycle.
01:10You just come up to stoplight, but instead of waiting in line...
01:14...behind all the other...
01:15...the other cars, you just go right up the line in between...
01:17...and you filter.
01:19On the inside, well...
01:20...it's very comfortable.
01:21You're right in the center of the car.
01:23You know, you're on the driver's side.
01:24I'm...
01:25...on both sides.
01:26So...
01:27...it's very convenient.
01:28You look out either window, you've got better visibility.
01:30You can see exactly what's happening around you.
01:32You've got better visibility than any car I've ever had.
01:35You can fit two people.
01:36This has a Momo steering wheel.
01:38This is actually used by race...
01:40...the Motec dash.
01:41Four-point shoulder harness with the pilots of commercial aircraft.
01:45You have to use these exact harnesses.
01:46With a comfortable and easy to drive interior, what is it like to drive a car?
01:50Like this.
01:51It handles really well.
01:53We know it has a super low sound of...
01:55...the gravity being that it has a dry sump engine that's opposed, so it's got a low...
02:00...the more sound of gravity than just about any other car.
02:02I've had it up to 120 miles an hour, so...
02:05...well, the length is 102 inches, same width of a semi-truck, so it can park perpendicular...
02:10...to the curb.
02:11Not小さい, so it's impossible.
02:12With the
02:34This has the same rollover threshold as a 911 Porsche.
02:37It turns instantly, unlike a motor.
02:39It has to counter-steer before it can turn to avoid a collision.
02:43The Tango debuted in
02:442005, and after actor George Clooney bought one, the car became a runaway success.
02:49Due to the nature of the build, the company can only produce a
02:54certain amount.
02:55It took 10 employees about three years to get nine and a half cars built.
02:59This is number 10.
03:00It's been quite a few more years.
03:04Also, it's a lot more complicated.
03:05We've spent a couple of years just developing the new lithium pack.
03:09But there have been constant upgrades over the years just to get the lithium back.
03:14The batteries and the management systems to handle them.
03:18This is the car that we
03:19actually sold to a customer in Perth, Australia.
03:22And it's...
03:24In the process of assembly, but mostly it's waiting on completion of the battery.
03:29The battery box is here.
03:31This whole, the whole bottom of the car is battery.
03:33There's 90...
03:3420 kilowatt hours of battery in there, which will give us about 300 miles of range.
03:38With all the...
03:39Work needed to create these slender vehicles.
03:41The production costs can't be that cheap.
03:43These cars...
03:44That have cost an average of $420,000 each to build.
03:47And unsurprisingly out...
03:49On the road, this car gets a lot of attention.
03:54How?
03:55I'm sorry.
03:56I'm sorry.
03:57Sure, of course.
03:58Yeah.
03:59This is so cool that you got this done. I'm so impressed with you. I mean, that's an amazing thing.
04:04So many reactions from people watching it. It's amazing. Sometimes we have two people, both the driver and the driver.
04:09And a passenger both photographing the car as we're going down the highway.
04:14Thank you for your attention.
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